Grass

Grass

Transparent	Yes
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	0
Tool
Renewable	Grass, Fern, Tall variants: Yes Shrub: No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	Yes
Drops	0–1 Wheat Seeds (without shears; all variants) 1 Grass, Fern or Shrub (with shears; grass, fern and shrub) 2 Grass or Fern (with shears; tall grass and large fern)
Data values	See § Data values
Name	See § Data values

This article is about the non-solid plant. For the solid block, see Grass Block. For the plant block that generates in oceans, see Seagrass.

"Shrub" redirects here. For the natural block, see Dead Bush.

Grass is a non-solid plant block that has wheat seeds as a drop. Its color is biome-dependent, and matches the color of grass blocks.
Tall grass is a two-block high variety of grass.
Ferns are variants of grass found only in certain biomes and have the same characteristics as grass.
Large ferns are a two-block high variety of fern.
Shrubs are variants of grass that don't generate naturally and are only found in the Legacy Console Edition. It has the same characteristics as grass and ferns and has the same texture as dead bushes, albeit with a green biome-dependent hue.

Obtaining

When broken normally, all variants will drop 0 or 1 wheat seeds. See here for more information. They can be obtained as an item using shears.

The double tall grass and large ferns will drop two of the respective single block when broken using shears.

Wandering traders will sell large ferns.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14 & BE 1.10]}

It can also be obtained from the Creative inventory.

Natural generation

Grass

Grass generates on grass blocks in most biomes with a grassy soil, like plains or forests. Tall grass generates in plains and savannas.

In 1.14‌^[upcoming] grasses can be found in 45.9% of village house chests in stacks of 1.

In 1.14‌^[upcoming] tall grasses can be found in 45.9% of village house chests in stacks of 1.

Ferns

Ferns occur naturally only in jungle, taiga, snowy taiga and giant tree taiga biomes. Large ferns generate in the same biomes, excluding jungles. Large ferns can be found in some taiga and snowy taiga village houses.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14 & BE 1.10]}

In 1.14‌^[upcoming] ferns can be found in 18.6% of village house chests in stacks of 1.

In 1.14‌^[upcoming] large ferns can be found in 18.6% of village house chests in stacks of 1.

Shrubs

Shrubs, though identical in appearance to the dead bushes found in deserts and badlands, do not naturally generate and can only be found in the creative inventory.

Bone meal

Bone meal can be used on a grass block to grow grass, ferns‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} and occasionally flowers on it and in its vicinity. It can also be used on grass or a fern to create a tall grass or large fern, respectively.

Usage

Wheat seeds

All variants of grass have a ¹⁄₈ chance of dropping wheat seeds when broken without using shears.

Flower pots

Ferns can be placed in flower pots.

Composting

Placing grass into a composter will have a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14]}

Placing tall grass into a composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14 & BE 1.11]}

Placing a fern into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14]}

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Name ID
Grass	grass
Fern	fern
Tall Grass	tall_grass
Large Fern	large_fern

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Name ID	Numeric ID
Grass	tallgrass	31
Plant	double_plant	175

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, grass uses the following data values:

grass

	DV	Description
	0	Tall Grass
	1	Fern

double plant

	DV	Description
	0	Sunflower
	1	Lilac
	2	Double Tallgrass
	3	Large Fern
	4	Rose Bush
	5	Peony
	8	Top Half of any Large Plant; low three bits 0x7 are derived from the block below.

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:
Tall grass and large fern

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
half	lower	lower upper	The half of the plant contained in this block.

History

Java Edition Beta
1.6			Test Build 3		Tall grass was implemented. Seeds used to be produced by tilling grass blocks prior to this update.
1.6.6					Bone meal can be used to instantly grow tall grass on grass blocks.
1.8			Pre-release		Grass and ferns can now be harvested with shears. Previously, tall grass could not be acquired as an item without the use of external tools. Tall grass in the inventory would appear as its grayscale texture, and would appear as the 'shrub' variety or the dead bush when placed.
					Swamp biomes have been redesigned and rain forest biomes are removed entirely, so triangular ferns no longer generate.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6		Ferns are available in the creative inventory.
1.1			11w49a		Eaten by sheep
1.2.1			12w03a		Ferns generate in jungle biomes.
			12w05a		Placing a block while selecting grass now overwrites the grass, similar to snow. Previously, grass had to be broken to place blocks in that space.
1.4.2			?		The sound for grass blocks when walking on it has changed.
1.5.1			?		Tall grass with a damage value of 3 or higher is still called 'grass', and still has green biome coloring, but is now shaped like a shrub or dead bush.
1.7.2			13w36a		Added double tall grass and large ferns. Ferns now spawn in taiga and cold taiga biomes.
1.8			?		Green colored shrubs (damage value 3 or greater) now look like normal shrubs.
1.8.1			pre1		Added facing state to minecraft:double_plant, though without visible effect.
1.13			17w47a		The different block states for the tallgrass and double_plant IDs have been split up into their own IDs.
					Double tall grass has been renamed to tall grass, and it has a new ID: tall_grass. Also renamed tall grass to grass.
					Merged the shrub's ID with the regular dead bush one (dead_bush), effectively removing the shrub variant completely.
					Prior to The Flattening, these block's numeral IDs were 31 and 175.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.14			19w03a		Placing grass into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
					Placing tall grass into the composter has a 20% chance of increasing the compost level by 1.
					Placing a fern into the composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
			19w05a		Grass now has a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
					Tall grass now has a 50% chance of increasing the compost level by 1.
					Ferns now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level by 1.
Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release					Tall grass added, but unobtainable.
0.5.0					Now drops seeds, despite remaining unobtainable.
0.8.0			?		Tall grass and ferns now generate.
0.9.0			build 1		Added double tall grass and large ferns.
					Double tall grass and ferns now generate.
			build 5		Tall grass is no longer flammable.
0.11.0			build 14		Double tallgrass and large fern pixels are now square.
					Tall grass and ferns now have a random height.
0.12.1			?		One-block high grass and ferns can now occupy the same space as snow layers.
0.14.0			build 3		Hitboxes of all variants of tall grass no longer occupy an entire block.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3		Large ferns are sold by the new wandering traders.
					Large ferns now generate in the new taiga and snowy taiga villages.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1		All grass variants can be used to fill composter.
					Grass and double tall grass can be found in savanna village house chest.
					Fern and large fern can be found in taiga and snowy taiga village house chest.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	Patch s1	Grass, tall grass and fern added.
TU7					Added ferns to creative.
TU12					Placing a block while selecting grass now overwrites the grass, similar to snow. Previously, grass had to be broken to place blocks in that space.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added Grass.

Issues

Issues relating to "Grass", "Fern", "Double Tallgrass", or "Large Fern" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Grass cannot be directly set on fire from lightning. However, fire from nearby blocks can spread to it. Oddly enough, the top of grass can be lit but it will not burn this way. When any kind of grass is set on fire, the fire seems to hover just over the grass, as if it were a full block.
• Even though ferns do not produce seeds in real life, as they emit spores instead, they can drop seeds if broken.
• Grass is slightly offset from the block it is sitting on (as seen in the second screenshot). This causes fields of grass appear more contiguous and not like dotted patches of hair atop blocks.
  • This can sometimes cause grass to clip horizontally or vertically through block corners.
• Grass can appear in caves on dirt near lava, and rarely, within a few blocks of bedrock. It can also generate in a village house.
• Using bone meal on grass in a spawn-protected area on a server will still produce grass and flowers.
• Placing any block on grass will overwrite the grass, and will not drop seeds.

Gallery

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  Grass and ferns.

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  Grass appears slightly offset from a grass block.

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  Grass and ferns in Bedrock Edition have a randomly selected height.

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  Grass growing in an abandoned mineshaft.

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  Tall grass that was set on fire using flint and steel.

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  Double tall grass may stump most hostile mobs, such as this Creeper however mobs may be able to attack if they're right next to the player.

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  Shrubs in the Legacy Console Edition, placed in an intersection between a taiga, a roofed forest and a desert.

References

Blocks

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